By Doug Porter
This week the State Senate voted 23-14 to approve Assembly Bill 775, the Reproductive FACT Act, sending it on to Gov. Jerry Brown. Backed by a coalition that includes NARAL Pro-Choice and Planned Parenthood California, AB 775 takes aim at the 200 plus so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” (CPCs) statewide.
The groups supporting the bill say the CPCs spread medical misinformation aimed at manipulating women to keep them from accessing abortion care. Unlicensed facilities providing pregnancy-related services would be required to prominently display and include in their advertising a statement that clarifies that they are not medical facilities licensed by the state of California.
An undercover investigation by NARAL earlier this year found that 91% of CPCs visited falsely linked abortion with health problems like breast cancer, infertility, depression and even death. [Read more…]